# Product Data and Digital Product Passports for Small Businesses

Source: https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/small-business
Last verified: 2 September 2026

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Too many questions. Not enough straight answers.

Start by checking whether a product rule applies to your product at all. For a lot of small catalogues the honest answer today is the labelling, substance and safety rules that already applied, not a passport.

**Last verified**
2 September 2026

01 · The timeline

## Planned is not a deadline

Set to micro and small. What does not reach you steps back.

In law Planned, can moveToday

- 27 Sep 2026New rules on environmental claims applyAdopted
Traders making covered business-to-consumer environmental claims in the EU

- 30 Dec 2026EUDR applies to operators and tradersAdopted
Operators and traders dealing in relevant commodities and relevant products within Annex I, subject to the Regulation's role and timing rules

Reaches: Large and medium enterprises

- 18 Feb 2027Battery Passport appliesAdopted
A legally fixed passport date for the covered battery categories.

- 30 Jun 2027EUDR for micro and small enterprisesAdopted
Operators and traders dealing in relevant commodities and relevant products within Annex I, subject to the Regulation's role and timing rules

Reaches: Micro and small enterprises

- Q4 2027Textile passport act, plannedIndicative
This is not a textile compliance deadline. Final fields, access, granularity and application timing remain to be set.

- 23 Sep 2029Detergent passport appliesAdopted
The adopted model-level detergent/surfactant DPP regime generally applies. See what the detergent passport must list.

- 19 Jul 2030Unsold apparel and footwear ban, medium enterprisesAdopted
Large enterprises, and medium enterprises from 19 Jul 2030, placing apparel, clothing accessories and footwear within the covered product scope. Micro and small enterprises are exempt

Reaches: Medium enterprises

- 1 Aug 2030Toy passport appliesAdopted
The adopted model-level Toy DPP regime applies.

Every date here is a row in [the obligations dataset](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/data), as JSON and CSV.

02 · By size

## Same rule, different start date by company size

03 · The route

## Eight steps, in order

- [01 · StartDoes a product rule reach you at all?](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/product-category-scope)
- [02 · ReadinessWhat to check first](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/small-business-dpp-readiness)
- [03 · IdentifierYour first product identifier](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/first-product-identifier-small-business)
- [04 · SelfFacts you can verify yourself](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/evidence/small-business-product-fact-observability)
- [05 · GapsWhen information is missing](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/missing-product-information-small-business)
- [06 · WhereProduct data without a PIM](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/product-data/small-business-without-pim)
- [07 · ReadyThe data you already have](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/the-data-you-already-have)
- [08 · NextWhat to do now, and what to refuse to do now](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/what-to-do-now)
Comparing DPP providers? Use [a representative-product test for choosing DPP software](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/choose-digital-product-passport-software#representative-pilot). Test the same ordinary product, meaningful variant differences, missing evidence, a conflict and a later change with every provider you shortlist.

04 · Something just happened

## Start from the problem in front of you

05 · Straight answers

## The questions small businesses ask most

- [Which products need a DPP?→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/product-category-scope)
- [Who carries the obligation?→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/who-carries-the-obligation)
- [Model, batch or item?→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/granularity)
- [Barcodes and product identifiers→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/fields/identifiers)
- [DPP work from a Shopify catalogue→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/shopify)
- [Which system should own each fact?→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/product-data/which-system-owns-each-fact)
- [Certificates, declarations and reports→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/evidence/documents)
- [Enrol your business in the DPP Registry→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/enrolling-in-the-registry)
- [What already applies today?→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/what-applies-today)
- [The 2027 2D barcode transition→](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/passport/ambition-2027-2d-barcodes)

## Try it on one product

We tell you what applies and ask only what we cannot work out ourselves.

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